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Quotes About Taste

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
~ Charles Baudelaire
My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.
~ Alexandra Cassavetes
A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.
~ Chen-Ning Yang
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
~ Francoise Sagan
In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
~ Brett Favre
Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
~ Lapo Elkann
I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.
~ Wolfgang Puck
My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.
~ Peter Eisenman
To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
~ Willis Polk
Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.
~ Daron Malakian
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.
~ Kesha
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
~ Vera Wang
I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
~ Felicity Jones
Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.
~ Michael Mina
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
~ Susan Sontag
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
~ E. M. Forster
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
~ Mel Brooks
There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.
~ Blake Lively
I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.
~ Michael Ian Black
The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!
~ Liza Minnelli
It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Admiration is seen as a noble sentiment - we admire people for admiring others, detecting, in their admiration, a suggestion of taste and humility.
~ Maria Konnikova
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
~ Stephen Bayley